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[quote=Anonymous]Another important question is the $ impact of the statehood on the DC households in different earning brackets? Cost or gain, average? How exactly is the state going to pay for things? What’s the governance?

Only DC, VT and WY have population under 700k. Our current GDP is artificially high due to the federal status. DC is 36th and VT and WY are, wait for it, dead last. At several multiple x less than DC (like 5-6x).

VT and WY have huge territory, tax havens, natural resources, or some combination thereof — we have none of that. Why isn’t this talked about at all?

There’s a smart play here — negotiate a no taxation, some representation for example. And then there’s the close your eyes and fly down the gnarly ski run and hope for the best. 
I can sort of tell where we land if we keep going at it with no forethought.

I don’t trust any DC Councilmembers with any math (maybe White Sr?), so get someone ex-TRe who’ll tell the truth no matter what (Larry Summers?) and study it, and then let us vote.

I’m very worried and so are my property $$$

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